Treating and Feeding Bees to Overcome Beekeeping Challenges

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @curiouscoy492
    @curiouscoy492 День тому +1

    Thanks for taking us along for your pre-winter inspections. I feel your pain about the high varroa mites. Sharing your experience helps novices (like me in 3rd year) a lot. With appreciation.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Hey I really appreciate you watching and commenting on ten video.

  • @Joshacruz
    @Joshacruz 2 дні тому +2

    Im a high school student and I love honey bees lol I’ve watching yours videos all this morning. Im been learning a lot too thank you

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  2 дні тому +1

      That is great. Thanks for watching and for checking in!

  • @musicmountainhoneybees3107
    @musicmountainhoneybees3107 5 годин тому

    Great video! Tyler has one heck of a feeding setup.

  • @framcesmoore
    @framcesmoore День тому

    HA BRUCE GOODTO SEE YOU GOOD VIDEO. I AM TREATING AS WELL BUT USING OAV, EVERY 5 DAYS, KNOCKING THEM DOWN HOPE U HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND HOPE THE TREATMENT WORKS AND YOUR BEES DO GOOD.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Awesome thanks for checking in. Hope it all works out well for you!

  • @sidelinerbeekeeper
    @sidelinerbeekeeper День тому

    Buddy has the most elaborate feed trailer that I have ever seen, but for good reason. 1:1 has no shelf life. His trailer solved this problem.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Yes it works out well for him. He can mix it up as he needs it.

  • @hootervillehoneybees8664
    @hootervillehoneybees8664 4 години тому

    Always amazing how fast they recover. That fall flow down there must be amazing.. exactly type of honey people suffer from allergies are looking for making it more valuable because it's rare I bet very common in my area but I'm not local down there. You leaving that honey on is working against you. Should be dropping them down in singles for dearth .. feed them and crowd that nest so that apivar has better hit . Leaving the honey on your just carrying over mean nasty nest over.. it's hard to treat. Single is very easy to treat. Next year id be thinking crowd that nest let them shed that work force.. I'd think young how do I flip my nest over to young bees .. could just run the latshaw carnie they will shut down and shed that work force during death unless you start feeding them.. other way is feed in single. Could draw bunch of new comb and reduce the temper of those bees . Heck I'd even pull some brood out setup a nuc battery off by itself start working on future at the nuc battery. Nuc battery does alot better without production units in the area . I'm clearing seeing it .. if they were in better shape before that fall flow I can clearly see your going to get couple suppers each. Wrag weed pollen and everything in it .. I was a kid I got two allergy shots twice a week with the stuff I was allergic to.. swelled up every time. I'd hide it because they give me Benadryl shot in the butt hurts pretty bad

  • @russellkoopman3004
    @russellkoopman3004 2 дні тому

    Bruce, thank you for posting an update. Sorry about the mites. Those buggers and SHB make it a challenge. But if it was easy everyone would be doing it. LOL Have a good week.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  20 годин тому +1

      True. There is always some sort of battle to fight. Hopefully I can get them under control.

  • @russellaymond312
    @russellaymond312 2 дні тому

    Hey Bruce and Greyson

  • @shrevesoule3567
    @shrevesoule3567 День тому

    It would be interesting to see a sticky board on the 75+ mite hive after treatment.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Yes it would. Just never really used sticky boards.

  • @bradgoliphant
    @bradgoliphant 2 дні тому

    wow, those damn SHBs.
    Bruce, question. Can we still treat OAV just a long as temps are below 50 where the bees cluster?

    • @jamestownsendjrtbees3226
      @jamestownsendjrtbees3226 2 дні тому

      It's better to treat with oav above 50 when the cluster loosens up so the treatment can really cover every bee.

    • @bradgoliphant
      @bradgoliphant 2 дні тому

      @@jamestownsendjrtbees3226 I meant above 50. perfect

  • @kathyhathaway8823
    @kathyhathaway8823 2 дні тому

    Bruce do you use the ultra dawn or just regular dawn . I can not find the ultra . Ya I also think the golden rod smells like dirty socks . Ours was very little this year because we have had less than a quarter of a inch of rain this month an I can never depend on the golden rod here . Thanks

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому +1

      I use Ultra. But I am not really sure it matters that much.

  • @651journey
    @651journey 20 годин тому

    Do you think 41 miles is to far to travel to a bee yard? I've been offered a location to put in 10 colonies 41 miles away. Im wondering if that's feasible.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому +1

      It depends on how much time you have to drive back and forth. That would be too far away for me. Many days I drive further than that to go to all my beeyards. The drive time really eats up my day. It works well for me but would be more convenient is they were closer together.

  • @jamestownsendjrtbees3226
    @jamestownsendjrtbees3226 2 дні тому

    Hey Bruce, those darn mites. I thought you liked using apivar? I hope the apiguard does the trick. The apivar you used earlier I guess didn't work?

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Apparently not as good of a job as I thought. I think the Apiguard is going to do the job.

  • @CastleHives
    @CastleHives 2 дні тому

    Bruce, around 15:32 was that a capped cell?

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      No I think that was either an old cell or something. It was actually quite a bit bigger than a cell if I am not mistaken. But it was not a live capped cell of my memory serves me right.

  • @frankiewuebblingbees
    @frankiewuebblingbees День тому

    For some reason I didn’t get a notification for this video

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Yeah I don’t know why. Sometimes UA-cam is strange.

  • @iantheghost
    @iantheghost 2 дні тому

    Dang those numbers suck! At least the Cougars are looking good

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Yes they are lol. All my bees did not look like this thank goodness. But I treated them all.

  • @BrianJMader54476
    @BrianJMader54476 2 дні тому

    🇺🇸👍

  • @bligon11
    @bligon11 День тому

    I thought came sugar was better for the bees than corn syrup??? Thoughts?

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  День тому +2

      That’s what people say and it may be true. But Tyler has built a large commercial beekeeping operation using corn syrup for the most part. I have used both and the bees seem the thrive just fine on either. Given a choice I would use sucrose syrup but the corn syrup is much easier to manage and more affordable.

    • @gingerbrimer8486
      @gingerbrimer8486 20 годин тому

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @Sullivans_bee_farm
      @Sullivans_bee_farm 16 годин тому

      @@brucesbeeswhere do you purchase HFCS?

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      Tyler buys it a tanker load at a time. He has been willing to sell it to me. If I didn’t have access to him I would just mix it up sugar and still do that much of the time. It’s just so much easier, and I think a bit cheaper, to buy the syrup.

  • @ThatBeeMan
    @ThatBeeMan 2 дні тому

    ​​I've tested that Hive Alive hive tool and while it's stronger than the typical Chinese hive tool, it's nowhere near as strong as a classic Maxant hive tool. My search continues. If Maxant would only resume production of their superior hive tool.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  20 годин тому +1

      Never tried one of those. I like the Hive Alive one. I also like the bright colors. Makes it easier to find and harder to lose.

    • @ThatBeeMan
      @ThatBeeMan 19 годин тому

      @@brucesbees For sure! I guess that's why Maxant made them in a variety of colours, like pink and yellow. Those are very easy to see in the bee yard, truck, toolbox etc.

    • @brucesbees
      @brucesbees  6 годин тому

      @ThatBeeMan yeah I’m not familiar with them. Maybe they will reintroduce them one of these days. Would love to have one.

  • @JohnSmith-fo8tw
    @JohnSmith-fo8tw 2 дні тому

    Goldenrod smells like dirt wet socks